Scrum Master and portfolio manager - Menlo Park, CA - Georgia IT Inc.

Menlo Park, CA

Scrum Master and portfolio manager
Location: Menlo Park, CA
Position Type: Contract
Rate: DOE

Responsibilities:

Establish, maintain and drive delivery against a product development schedule including milestones and releases
Establish, monitor and report on multiple project roadmaps simultaneously while managing cross dependencies and team resourcing
Translate business requirements into a product backlog of stories that balance customer readability with engineering usability as well as any supplemental artifacts necessary to capture and communicate those requirements (e.g. UI mocks)
Partner with engineering leadership to identify, implement and lead the appropriate software development methodology (e.g. SCRUM grooming, planning, stand-ups, review and retro)
Partner with Engineering teams to establish and drive successful quality assurance of our products, including test plan review and testing as necessary
Proactively identity, track and drive resolution of blocking issues and non-engineering action items
Establish, maintain and drive consumption of a high-level project status dashboard and report
Identify and drive process improvement throughout the engineering organization
Establish and lead regular partner syncs.

Requirements

BA/BS in software development related fields
4+ years of experience in a technical role delivering software as a service (e.g. PM, QA, etc.)
1+ years of experience in software program / project / product management
Demonstrated ability to interact, influence and align with all levels of an organization; both internal and external, technical and non-technical
Demonstrated ability to work with strong personalities, influencing and driving consensus
Demonstrated ability to multi-task multiple high-priority and conflicting work-streams.

Pluses

Source : Georgia IT Inc.